(a) As used in this section:(1) “Athletic activity” means a varsity sport or another competitive sports-related contest, game, event, or exhibition that involves an individual student or teams of students either among schools within a resident school district or between schools outside of the resident school district;(2) “Interscholastic activity” means an activity between schools subject to rules of the Arkansas Activities Association that is:(A) Outside the regular curriculum of a public school district, including without limitation an athletic activity, a fine arts program, or a special interest club or group; and(B) Taught by an individual with a minimum of a high school diploma;(3) “Parent” means a parent, legal guardian, or person standing in loco parentis to a child;(4) “Private school” means a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that is:(A) A registered nonprofit; and(B) Accredited or licensed by an accrediting association recognized by the State Board of Education;(5) “Resident school” means:(A) A public school to which a student would be assigned by the student's resident school district; or(B) An open-enrollment public charter school with a campus located within the student's resident school district; and(6) “Resident school district” means a public school district in which a private school student's parent resides as determined under § 6-18-202.
(1) “Athletic activity” means a varsity sport or another competitive sports-related contest, game, event, or exhibition that involves an individual student or teams of students either among schools within a resident school district or between schools outside of the resident school district;
(2) “Interscholastic activity” means an activity between schools subject to rules of the Arkansas Activities Association that is:(A) Outside the regular curriculum of a public school district, including without limitation an athletic activity, a fine arts program, or a special interest club or group; and(B) Taught by an individual with a minimum of a high school diploma;
(A) Outside the regular curriculum of a public school district, including without limitation an athletic activity, a fine arts program, or a special interest club or group; and
(B) Taught by an individual with a minimum of a high school diploma;
(3) “Parent” means a parent, legal guardian, or person standing in loco parentis to a child;
(4) “Private school” means a nonpublic elementary or secondary school that is:(A) A registered nonprofit; and(B) Accredited or licensed by an accrediting association recognized by the State Board of Education;
(A) A registered nonprofit; and
(B) Accredited or licensed by an accrediting association recognized by the State Board of Education;
(5) “Resident school” means:(A) A public school to which a student would be assigned by the student's resident school district; or(B) An open-enrollment public charter school with a campus located within the student's resident school district; and
(A) A public school to which a student would be assigned by the student's resident school district; or
(B) An open-enrollment public charter school with a campus located within the student's resident school district; and
(6) “Resident school district” means a public school district in which a private school student's parent resides as determined under § 6-18-202.
(b) A resident school district or an open-enrollment public charter school may permit a private school student to pursue participation in an interscholastic activity at the resident school if the private school in which the student is enrolled does not have the interscholastic activity in which the private school student seeks to participate approved by the Arkansas Activities Association.
(c) A private school student who participates in an interscholastic activity that does not occur during a designated class period at his or her resident school shall be enrolled in a nonacademic class period in his or her resident school that coincides with the interscholastic activity that does not occur during a designated class period in which the private school student participates in order for the resident school district to receive an amount equal to one-sixth (1/6) of the state foundation funding amount provided under § 6-20-2305 for the duration of the private school student's enrollment in the resident school district.